No talking shop at Global HQ

Lunch Watch: speaking of
Joe Hockey
, the Treasurer was hidden away (as always) in the back corner of Global HQ on Wednesday, lunching with his old friend and state Transport Minister
Gladys Berejiklian
. Talking shop would’ve been easy – after all, NSW has embraced Hockey’s incentives to recycle old infrastructure money into new road and rail – but when we dropped by to say hi, the pair certainly didn’t seem that boring. Also at Sydney’s Rockpool Bar & Grill, and in the dress circle, was the Daily Telegraph’s indefatigable editor Paul “Boris" Whittaker squiring Australian Women’s Weekly editor-in-chief Helen McCabe, and our former consul-general to New York,
Ken Allen,
was chatting with former Labor senator turned lobbyist
Stephen Loosley
.